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Box 1

 Container

Contains 53 Results:

Agnell, Paul (Amalgamated Metal Workers) 1923 Request Item

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents From the Series: Correspondence primarily documenting Sidney Hillman's activities as the ACWA's first president during its formative years. Early correspondence with such figures as Joseph Schlossberg and Jacob Potofsky describes the 1914 split with the United Garment Workers, which led to the formation of the ACWA. Letters from Potofsky, E.J. Brais and Frank Rosenblum also discuss the process of industrial unionization, the amalgamation of the craft unions that had previously represented organized workers...
Dates: 1914-1980; 1920-1950 (bulk)

Alfred, Decker and Cohn, 1919-25 Request Item

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents From the Series: Correspondence primarily documenting Sidney Hillman's activities as the ACWA's first president during its formative years. Early correspondence with such figures as Joseph Schlossberg and Jacob Potofsky describes the 1914 split with the United Garment Workers, which led to the formation of the ACWA. Letters from Potofsky, E.J. Brais and Frank Rosenblum also discuss the process of industrial unionization, the amalgamation of the craft unions that had previously represented organized workers...
Dates: 1914-1980; 1920-1950 (bulk)

American Clothing Manufacturers Association of New York, 1915-19 Request Item

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 9
Abstract

Preliminaries to the New York City Lockout, January 1916 (wages, hours, working conditions); impact of technology on work; 44 hour week demanded by union; substantial contribution to the Jewish War Sufferers Relief Fund; complaints by contractors; bidding for labor-association versus non-association.

Dates: 1914-1980; 1920-1950 (bulk)

Anderson, Mary (Women in Industry Service, U.S. Department of Labor) 1919 Request Item

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents From the Series: Correspondence primarily documenting Sidney Hillman's activities as the ACWA's first president during its formative years. Early correspondence with such figures as Joseph Schlossberg and Jacob Potofsky describes the 1914 split with the United Garment Workers, which led to the formation of the ACWA. Letters from Potofsky, E.J. Brais and Frank Rosenblum also discuss the process of industrial unionization, the amalgamation of the craft unions that had previously represented organized workers...
Dates: 1914-1980; 1920-1950 (bulk)

Artoni, G. (Organizer, Rochester and Buffalo, N.Y.) 1923-27 Request Item

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 12
Abstract

Italian workers in Buffalo discontent; open shop; organizing Polish workers; Artoni's resignation.

Dates: 1914-1980; 1920-1950 (bulk)

Barber, Frank, 1925 Request Item

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents From the Series: Correspondence primarily documenting Sidney Hillman's activities as the ACWA's first president during its formative years. Early correspondence with such figures as Joseph Schlossberg and Jacob Potofsky describes the 1914 split with the United Garment Workers, which led to the formation of the ACWA. Letters from Potofsky, E.J. Brais and Frank Rosenblum also discuss the process of industrial unionization, the amalgamation of the craft unions that had previously represented organized workers...
Dates: 1914-1980; 1920-1950 (bulk)